20 coasters/WIndows problems

[nuvideo]

Hours later and 20 coasters I still can't burn a DVD that will play on either of my windows machines DVDs.

G-5 w/10.4.10 using most recent update of Toast 6 Titanium

Open in Video menu and select DVD-video.

Drag in QT movie by reference

 

Plays great on TV top DVD and on Mac. WIll NOT PLAY ON WINDOWS. PC's DVD player does not even see the disc.

 

The workaround is to burn the QT movie using iDVD. The quality then just sucks. IT is all washed out..

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

[tsantee]

This is very curious.

 

I would have suggested trying a different brand of media or using DVD+R instead of DVD-R (or vice versa) but you say the same media is working when the disc is burned with iDVD.

 

It also seems very odd to me that iDVD's encoding would look worse than Toast 6. It's more common to hear people report the opposite.

 

The MPEG encoder in Toast 8 is far superior to the one in Toast 6. Also, you get the benefit of AC-3 audio encoding which is a huge benefit when creating video DVDs that are longer than 75 minutes. With your Mac and OS I think its time to upgrade to Toast 8. (I'm stating a fact not trying to sell you anything).

 

As for the problem you're experiencing the only thing I can suggest is using a different brand or type of DVD media.

[nuvideo]

This is very curious.

 

I would have suggested trying a different brand of media or using DVD+R instead of DVD-R (or vice versa) but you say the same media is working when the disc is burned with iDVD.

 

It also seems very odd to me that iDVD's encoding would look worse than Toast 6. It's more common to hear people report the opposite.

 

The MPEG encoder in Toast 8 is far superior to the one in Toast 6. Also, you get the benefit of AC-3 audio encoding which is a huge benefit when creating video DVDs that are longer than 75 minutes. With your Mac and OS I think its time to upgrade to Toast 8. (I'm stating a fact not trying to sell you anything).

 

As for the problem you're experiencing the only thing I can suggest is using a different brand or type of DVD media.

 

 

I did try a different media mfter without any improvement. RIght now the work around is fine. If I thoiught Toast 8 would help I would get it in a heart beat. BTW, I don't know if I mentioned that the source file is Media100 and exported out of M100 by reference. I sent you a PM without checking here first. Thanks for the thoiughts.

[tsantee]

I did try a different media mfter without any improvement. RIght now the work around is fine. If I thoiught Toast 8 would help I would get it in a heart beat. BTW, I don't know if I mentioned that the source file is Media100 and exported out of M100 by reference. I sent you a PM without checking here first. Thanks for the thoiughts.

I seem to recall some posts in either the Toast 8 or 7 forums where people were having a similar problem playing DVDs on their PCs. So upgrading to Toast may make no difference in this regard. Still, Roxio has a refund policy if you don't want it after buying and trying it out (when purchased as a download).

 

My opinion of Toast 6 is that it is fine for anything that doesn't require encoding. But Roxio stopped updating it a long time ago and Apple keeps changing the OS and QuickTime. There has to be things that don't work right any more.

[nuvideo]

I seem to recall some posts in either the Toast 8 or 7 forums where people were having a similar problem playing DVDs on their PCs. So upgrading to Toast may make no difference in this regard. Still, Roxio has a refund policy if you don't want it after buying and trying it out (when purchased as a download).

 

My opinion of Toast 6 is that it is fine for anything that doesn't require encoding. But Roxio stopped updating it a long time ago and Apple keeps changing the OS and QuickTime. There has to be things that don't work right any more.

Talked me into it> I will order it right now.